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That's because the corps founder and director (George Lindstrom) was the former Kilties' director. Most of the staff were former Kilties with several Scouts (John Schrack, Ken Geise, Greg Jaroze for a few) thrown in. If you change the hats, the colors and a few details, MBBB was very Scout-like. Including marching style and being crowd-oriented. (If my memory is working, there were as many as 8, maybe more, Blues members who later marched Scouts. Not bad for a corps from the South that only completed 3 seasons.)

Mid-80s Sky Ryder T-shirt and sweatshirts that simply said: OZ

Thanks Kevin! I'm still trying to catch up on lost sleep from '86 Actually the rewrite was mainly because of the change needed in the opener (building the front). Since the new version completely rearranged horn positions, we decided to fix everything that we could. (We actually kept a lot of the first tour drill but everyone was now in new spots so to the marchers, it was new.) Would I do things differently that year? Of course, but I wouldn't trade it for anything! ^OO^

Contact Mark Hudson. He lives in the Jackson, Mississippi area and is planning on being there. I don't know if he's driving or flying but drop him an email to find out. His email is Trumpetman19@hotmail.com Nolan Jones (edited for spelling)

Of course! "Buddy" Edge just recently retired from New Albany, MS schools. He actually wanted to keep on but retired in protest over school district issues. Buddy started volunteering with MB3 in 1981.

Memphis Blues, 1980 at the first public perfromance at the spring Open House / Show & Tell. This is in the old condemed YMCA in downtown Memphis in April(?) of 1980. I'm the soprano on the far left. :)

Definitely 1980 (note the blue sash with gold stripe). The soprano closest is Johnny Sanchez, former drill writer for Blue Devils and Phantom Regiment (probably others as well). After 1980 Memphis, Johnny went on to march Cadets before aging out. The next sop. player back is Garvin Keen, former band director in north Mississippi, near Memphis. The third sop. (can see just his face) is Robin Crawford. Another former band director, lives in Pearl, MS now and has recently returned from Iraq and is a Warrant Officer in full-time Army National Guard. (Edited to add info.)

A lot of you are pretty surprised by this announcement. The brief talk I had with Sal at Mansfield Stadium makes more sense now. Corps fans will speculate on the reasons and politics of this decision. Everyone will have an opinion of who will or should replace Sal. When it's all said-and-done there will be a new director of the Madison Scouts and they will still be the Madison Scouts. The Scouts are not defined by their director, but by the members, past and present. Sal has done a great job in the last four seasons and now the torch passes to the next director (who by the way, will not be the last director). Just as in every year before this one, I look forward to seeing the next class of Scouts and the product they put on the field. Everyone knows that they will put everything into it, leaving it all on the field every show. MYNWA The speculations may now continue....

Don't the Madison Alumni Project at Friday night's semifinals performance this year!! 112 G Bugles ... all at once ... all former Scouts ... hold on!!!

Sounds like part of Scott Stewart's idea from 1997. DCP thread discussing it here.

Thanks Tim for the compliment! There were a lot of good talent on the staff that summer. It was tough trying to give Tommy a "palette" of drill for his view of delivering the story line, but it worked. SR's highest place ever! The photo is definitely from some sort of free day. Notice the white around my fresh haircut. :) (Edited for spelling. :) )

Just a month ago Keith Hall, Mack Deas (brass, later worked with Cadets and magic) and I had dinner while attending the funeral of our college band director. This is the Keith Hall of "The Band Hall" in Nashville. Mack now lives in Portland, Maine as the Manager for the statewide office of New York Life.

Yes, I'm the same one. :) 1986 was a fun (and trying) summer. I was brought in as a drill tech and a week or so before everydays, I became the drill writer! Talk about deadlines! Write all night then sleep while the corps learned it. That worked pretty well until a move needed tweaking then in would come Keith and there would go the sleep. Oh, ... the life of drum corps. Wouldn't trade it for anything. ... well, maybe a lot of cash. :) Great group to teach, too. Even Oscar.

Lots of 1982 shots! Any of Madison Scouts '82?

I had to merge 5 photos to get this one ... the front row is the soprano line ... I'm 12th from the left, in the black shirt ...

The photo I have is a flying soprano ... in a slide ...

It was our pleasure, Vic! I wish I could've be there. Jeff said that the discussions were very productive, too. I look forward to making the next one. ^OO^ Oh yeah, the Madison Reunion Project rehearsal was great! B)

Generals are in. ^OO^

Wow! Look how thin I was!

That's an awkward weekend for us. We were originally planning for Houston but many of our band directors/members/etc. make the Murfreesboro, TN show part of thir summer. (Some of our band directors take buses of kids there) Keep doing the show and we'll get there eventualy! :)

NOtice: Not all Sops shown, no mellos and no contras shown! By the way mellos:

WOW! Greg Jarosz (Scouts '79, '80 and Memphis Sop tech '81) cracked a half-dozen cinder blocks with a DD! I can hit a pretty good one but not one that can cover the blast of an F-18 with afterburners! It was (and will be) worth every mile!

The connection cut out before I could lkeave a message with him. Vic had generously offered for me to tag along with HW for Scranton. I was just trying to let him know I'll be sticking around here. We had a Jackson Generals performance schedlued for September 10 with the Mississippi Symphony. That is up in the air for now. Good luck to all in PA this week!

The Jackson area is slowly coming back up. I shut down the web servers here to prevent any file corruption. Good thing too, just got power this morning. Power is still off at my home in Brandon. If it isn't back up soon, we'll be throwing out a lot of food. (Actually taking it to shelter sites for them to use) Fortunately my neighborhood had a lot less damage than most of the community. I do need a new roof though. Anyone know how to raise 2 baby squirrels? Found them on the ground yesterday. Their eyes aren't opened yet and seem to be in surprisingly good shape. My five year old and two year old boys are getting pretty tired of the hot house and candles. Not many casualties in this area. I haven't been able to get in touch with our guys in Hattiesburg to Gulfport yet. I hoping they were able to clear out in time. I remember Camille passing over Jackson in '69. It was a Cat1 by then, like Katrina. Katrina was a lot bigger in size. Thanks to everyone for your concern. As we get a better info I'll let you all know.

Do we have a great lineup of warmup performances for us or what?!